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J. W. BROWN. BALING PRESS.

No. 446-,128- Patented Feb. 10,1891.

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No 446,128. Patented Feb. 10,1891.

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.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JUNIUS XV. BROlVN, OF RUSSELLVILLE, ARKANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J. W. lVELLS, OF SAME PLACE.

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`SPECIFICATION formng part of v Letters Patent No. 446,128, dated February 10, 1891.

lApplication filed July 12, 1890. Serial No. 358,562. (No model.)

To all whom it may conccrn:`

Be it known 'that I, JUNIUS XV. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Russellville, in the county of Pope and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Baling Cotton, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to an apparatus for baling` cotton.

Heretofore the operation of preparing cotton for the market has been as follows: The seed cotton after having been ginned is passed through the condenser and there formedinto a soft bat or mass, which is placed in what is usually termed a plantation baling-press and formed into plantation or country bales. By the transportation of the Cotton-bat to the press much of the fiber is lost and the ginnery becomes filled with the floating fiber which has escaped, which is not only disagreeable to the operator and causes a 1oss,. but also is liable to cause a confiagration. After the formation of the country bale the same is hauled in wagons or otherwise to a 2 5 neighboring point, where is usually located a powerful hydraulic or steam press, and the large bulky country bale of five'or more feet is compressed into the compact mass of standard bale size of about twenty-two inches.4 Oftentimes these large bulky bales previous to compression are stored upon the plantation previous to hauling, and Whether stored or in the act of being hauled it will be ob- Vious that they consume by reason of their immense bulk a great amount of space, and consequently the cost of storage and hauling is proportionately increased. Furthermore, considerable expense is incur'red in the compressing Operation by the compress, which 40' compression is necessary in order to reduce the bale to a size that may be transported at a reasonable rate by the boat or railroad lines.

The objects of my invention are to provide a suitable baling machine or apparatus of such cheap and simple construction as to be within the reach of the planter and adapted to be located at the ginnery, and of such a construction as to take the cotton direct from the condenser and reduce the same to a compact compressed bale, having a density as great as the usual compressed bale. By such a construction the handlin g of the bale, transporting the same to the compress, storing, compressing, &c., are all avoided and the expense saved. p

Tith the above objects iu view the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure lis a side elevation of myapparatus, the same being arranged in position in connection with a gin and a condenser. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the baling-press. Fig. 3 is a transverse section. Fig.4is a detail in perspect-ive of the completed bale.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In practicing i'ny invention I construct the press with two opposite side walls 1,l said walls being of similar form and construction and connected at suitable points by crossbars 2. Each of the side Walls of the front of the press is provided with a bearing-opening 3, in which is mounted the main shaft 4, the ends of which project beyond one of the side walls. Between the side Walls there is mounted upon the shaft a large and main compression-roller 5. Beyond the side wall at which the shaft extends there is mounted a belt-pulley 6 and a main or master pulley 7.

8 designate a series of bearing-openin'gs formed in the opposite side walls, the series being concentric with the bearing-opening 3 and at equal distances from said Opening. In each pair of bearing-openings 12 is journaled a secondary com pression-roller 9, which rollers have frictional contact with and are operated bythe main compression-roller 5.

Below the compression-roller 5 and vertically opposite the same there is formed iu the inner sides or surfaces of the side wall vertical ways or recesses 10, in which is adapted to ride a billet or core 11, forming, the spindle upon which the bale is formed.

12 designates a series of slots formed in each of the side walls and radiating from a point slightly below and Vertically opposite the shaft 4, the central slots being formed in the bottoms of'the recesses 10. In each of IOO these slots is located a bale-binding roller 1.3,

the ends of which project beyond the slots, and each end of each roller is provided with a fast pulley 14.

In rear of the bearing-openings 3 of the side walls said walls are provided with a pair of opposite loi'igit-udinal horizontal slots 15, in which is mounted for movement a transverse shaft 16, which shaft extends beyond the walls and is provided with fast pulleys 17. The Vpulleys 17 7 let and the lower pulleys9 of the series at each side of the press are connected by a belt 18, which belt is operated through the medium of the shaft 4 and pulley 7, the latter driven by any suitable motor, and preferably by the same motor which drives the gin'and condenser. By the rotation of the main roller 5 motion is also imparted to the two upper rollers 9, which have frictional contact with said main -roller, and motion is also imparted to the series of binding-rollers 13.

In rear of the slots 15 there is journaled in the side walls 1 a transverse shaft 19, the ends of which project beyond the side walls ,and carry pulleys 20. Cables 21 are passed over each of the pulleys and have their forward ends connected to links 22, which links take over the ends of the'shaft 16. The lower and rear ends of the cable are provided with `a series of removable weights 24, which weights through the medium of the cables and the shaft 16 exert a drawing influence upon the pulleys 7 and'lfll, so that the pulley 6 being mounted upon a fixed shaft the rolls 13 are drawn with equal pressure toward a common point, and at that point is located the billet or core 11.

The Operation of forming a bale is as follows: The cotton passes from the gin to the condenser, where, as is Well known, it is transfornred into a soft mass. As it emerges from the condenser its leading end is passcd between the main or priniary compressing-roll and the upper secondary roll, and from thence under the two remaining secondary rolls and betweenthem and said main roll, whereby the -thick soft mass is reduced to athin sheet or web, which is wound around the billet 11 as fast as formed. The billet or' cord 11 is revolved through the medium of the bindingrolls 13, which rolls press upon the cotton as fast as wound, the pressure being regulated by the weights 24. After a sufficient quantity of cotton has been rolled and baled, during all of which time it is subj ect to Constant comreaches this point the rear binding-roller 13 is elevated so as to permit said bale to roll down the inclined way and out of the press. A new core is inserted and the belt readj usted and the Operation completed.

A bale formed by my press is of the usual V density, and is therefore not subjected to any further compression, the cost of which compression is saved, together with the cost of' transporting'the bale to the compress.

From the above description it will be apparent that I attain the numerous advantageous objects heretofore stated, and suceeed in producing an exceedingly cheap and simple baling-press adapted to form bales by the continuous Operation in connection with the ginning and condensing of the cotton, avoiding all further compression, cost of transportation, &c.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- In abaling-press, the combination, with the opposite sides 1, provided with the opposite bearings 3, the series of bearing-openings 8, arranged concentric to the bearing 3 and the radiating bearing-slots 12, and the vertical recesses or ways 10, of the main shaft Lt, having` the pulleys 6 and 7 and main compressingroll the series of secondary rolls 9, mounted in the bearing-openings 8,the binding-rollers 13, inounted in the slots and provided with pulleys 14, the bale-core monnted in the Ways 10, the transverse tension-shaft 16, mounted in longitudinal slots 15 and having pulleys 17 at each end, the transverse shaft 19, having .pulleys 20, the cable 21,passing over the pul- IOO 

